Re:Why is Perl so hated? (Score 1)

Is Grandma writing software really a good thing? Is it such a bad thing, either? I'm not a programmer, but I write programs. Why? Because I need to do stuff that 1) I can write programs to make easier for me and that 2) nobody else seems to want to do so I can't find stuff already written for it. My stuff has a "user base" of at most, two. But Perl makes it easy to do what I need to do, regex stuff that would otherwise make my eyeballs fall out of my head. I taught myself from a couple of O'Reilly books, and if I can do it, anyone can. If Grandma wants to use Perl to organize her recipe files or knitting patterns or email from her grandkids, why not? Is she hurting anyone by doing so? What's the UNIX kernel got to do with it? Maybe you just feel a bit threatened that "ordinary people" are learning to write simple programs and you aren't the allknowing guru anymore?